…I cut out many more floor boards to continue the pattern. But when I laid them down, I realized the pattern was off a little and the cracks between the boards were getting awfully big on the left-hand side.

So I pulled them all back up. This means tomorrow I will have to do a lot of custom fitting to get this pattern to work right…..sigh.

Sometimes you spend hours working on something that looks like very little progress in the end. Tonight was one of those times…

Since I was dealing with uneven floor issues (left over from earlier leveling problems), it took quite a while to glue in the north wall of the nursery correctly…and then to wallpaper it in such a way as to cover whatever issues were left.

I’m not a hundred percent sure I like my wallpaper seam on the back wall, but I’m too tired to try again…

I also started cutting out tiny floor boards that will eventually make up the pattern I found in this photo.

But for now, here is the east side of the house.

And here is the nursery table…complete with Aesop’s Fables, a sheet of tiny paper dolls, and a set of eyeglasses for the governess.

Spent a bit of time today on the nursery chimney and fireplace. Made the walls for the chimney first.

And attached them to the outside wall with the fireplace wires passing through the two walls.

Then I placed the walls and the fireplace into the room and set a model ship on the mantel piece.

Reminded me of Neil Finn’s song lyrics:

“Well there’s a small boat made of china
It’s going nowhere on the mantelpiece…”

Here’s this side of the house for now.

I took the wallpaper I was planning on using and modified the size to print it.

The wall part looked right, so I glued it on, but the swan trim is too big (for that matter, so is the wallpaper I leaned up against the hallway wall…it’s hard to predict the way it’ll turn out when you’re using photoshop). I’ll have to try again tomorrow.